ANNOUNCEMENT: Lasercake 0.22
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Isaac Dupree
Mar 7, 2013, 10:42:36 AM3/7/13
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Lasercake is an open-world game about the environment. It is
free/libre/open-source software that supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
Lasercake 0.22 is the first alpha release of a project that has been a
year in the making.
Get it at http://www.lasercake.net/
Project blurb
=============
What is energy? Where does the energy we use come from? How do we gather
and process materials, and what effects does that have on the planet we
live on?
The Lasercake project aims to help people understand these things
through the powerful medium of computer games.
In Lasercake (the game), the player can use robots to build industrial
projects – but unlike in similar games, every part of the world is based
on real-life science. Mine waste has to be dumped somewhere and causes
pollution. Energy is conserved. Solar panels, wind turbines, and so on,
harvest realistic amounts of energy. In short, we plan to include any
and all scientific concepts that we can include while still keeping the
game fun and engaging.
Most of those things don't exist yet – the game is far from complete –
but we have a prototype showing some of the things we've done already.
We want to make awesome things free to everyone. Anyone with an Internet
connection may download Lasercake and its source code without charge,
and anyone with the ability may create and distribute modified versions
under the terms of the GNU AGPL.
The current project team is Eli Dupree ( http://www.elidupree.com/ ) and
Isaac Dupree ( http://www.idupree.com/ ). We began this project in
December 2011 as an experiment in simulating water physics, and it's
only kept expanding since.
We want your cool skills! The two of us could do this project on our
own, but it will be more awesome if you help us out. There's a lot of
different things that go into a big project like Lasercake – art,
sustainable design, computer programming, geology, physics, sound
design, and many other things besides. If you want to help, any way is
good to contact us:
this Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/lasercake
email: this mailing list, lase...@googlegroups.com
IRC: freenode #lasercake ( Web IRC:
https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=lasercake )
GitHub: https://github.com/Lasercake/Lasercake/issues
free/libre/open-source software that supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
Lasercake 0.22 is the first alpha release of a project that has been a
year in the making.
Get it at http://www.lasercake.net/
Project blurb
=============
What is energy? Where does the energy we use come from? How do we gather
and process materials, and what effects does that have on the planet we
live on?
The Lasercake project aims to help people understand these things
through the powerful medium of computer games.
In Lasercake (the game), the player can use robots to build industrial
projects – but unlike in similar games, every part of the world is based
on real-life science. Mine waste has to be dumped somewhere and causes
pollution. Energy is conserved. Solar panels, wind turbines, and so on,
harvest realistic amounts of energy. In short, we plan to include any
and all scientific concepts that we can include while still keeping the
game fun and engaging.
Most of those things don't exist yet – the game is far from complete –
but we have a prototype showing some of the things we've done already.
We want to make awesome things free to everyone. Anyone with an Internet
connection may download Lasercake and its source code without charge,
and anyone with the ability may create and distribute modified versions
under the terms of the GNU AGPL.
The current project team is Eli Dupree ( http://www.elidupree.com/ ) and
Isaac Dupree ( http://www.idupree.com/ ). We began this project in
December 2011 as an experiment in simulating water physics, and it's
only kept expanding since.
We want your cool skills! The two of us could do this project on our
own, but it will be more awesome if you help us out. There's a lot of
different things that go into a big project like Lasercake – art,
sustainable design, computer programming, geology, physics, sound
design, and many other things besides. If you want to help, any way is
good to contact us:
this Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/lasercake
email: this mailing list, lase...@googlegroups.com
IRC: freenode #lasercake ( Web IRC:
https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=lasercake )
GitHub: https://github.com/Lasercake/Lasercake/issues
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